Chapters

Before I read the chapter of Big Organic, I thought that it would be just like big organic farm. However, after I read the chapter, I found that it was more like an industrial farm in many aspects. The first theme I want to address is environment and economy in Big Organic food system. According to Pollan (2006), the initial goal of organic was to create a food system conforming to the logic of nature. In a natural ecosystem, there are diverse plants and animals draw fertility and energy from…

In Chapter 1, Brown (2011) explains why she gave up her job as an English professor to become a nurse. Her reason for switching careers being that nursing is “…a job I love and hate” (p. 11). She explains that nursing was a much more meaningful career for her, and that it stressed her out in a “completely different and oddly more tolerable way” (p. 11). While I was reading this chapter I felt comforted by Theresa’s words, because it was something I could relate to on so many levels. I chose…

The biblical reading that I selected is from the book of Acts, Chapter 5: 1-11, which is the story of Ananias and Sapphira. My reason for choosing this story is personal. While living in Italy, we were in Rome with some of our seminarian friends. We were waiting to go on the Scavi tour and had some free time. One of the seminarians asked if we had ever seen the sacristy in St. Peter’s. We had not, so he took us in for a tour. After the tour of the sacristy, we walked out into the Basilica.…

In Chapter 12 entitled Stress, Adjustment, and Health Differences was a very interesting read and it makes you think what is really going on in the world today. While I was reading the longitudinal research project of Lewis Terman (Terman’s “Termites”). My thoughts of it was pretty surprised, the things that were in it was very surprising. One part in particular was with cheerfulness as one of the many personality dimensions from Terman’s scales. He came up with a certain amount of scales to…

In Chapter Eleven, Siddhartha is still emotionally wounded by the departure of his son. Out of desperation, Siddhartha attempts to seek out his son one last time. However, Siddhartha remembers that he had once left his father the same way his son left him. Then, the river laughs at him, and Siddhartha goes to tell Vasudeva, about his experience. Vasudeva brings him to show Siddhartha something he has not heard. They listen to the river intensely and Siddhartha finally hears all of the voices of…

side by side their quite parallel lives, and gives the reader information and insight about these prophets and their religions. In his book, Jesus and Muhammad, Peters compares the parallel lives of the prophets of Christianity and Islam. In the chapter titled, “The Message: Muhammad at Mecca”, he states, “Like Jesus, Muhammad was a reformer rather than a revolutionary. Though Muslims later preferred to think of it otherwise, the message of Islam was no intended to destroy or obliterate the…

The first point that have caught my attention in chapter 4 is the fact that, it is bieing seen the American Revolution was a substitution of one tyranny for one tyranny. Zin is trying to show us that the founding fathers were just a elite that was trying to keep the lower classes to stay in the" low class " category. In the beginning of the chapter he says that the founders was taking over land, political power and profits from the British empire. As they do that they will be able to hold back…

Chapter five is a great reference for how much of an impact exercising can have on one’s social relationships. Throughout the chapter, the writer describes how family, fitness instructors, and even friends influences one’s relationship with exercise greatly. These groups of people can be a great support in many different ways, through emotional, instrumental, informational, as well as other examples. A support system that can help provide these can be very beneficial to one trying to workout.…

As word of mouth being the oldest news medium (Stephens, 2007, p. 2), this chapter introduces different kinds of oral news, such as spoken news and news exchange in coffee houses. The latter is presented with its historical context and significance for the French Revolution, because of its strong impact to society. The use of language goes back until 100,000 B.C. with the rise of the homo sapiens (Stephens, 2007, p. XI) and is a basic tool for human communication and interaction. Tikopia…

At the beginning of chapter ten LeDonne heard another voice and it was Rattler. At first I thought he was just another hallucination that he was have,but it turns out that he was a real person. I thought it was pretty cool that that Rattler also has “the sight” like Nora Bonesteel. When Ben went into Larks hospital room he thought there was going to be all kinds of famous people, but there was not. I could not imagine being in the hospital and not have any family or friends there. Lark has just…